| Title | Improved texture recognition of SAR sea ice imagery by data fusion of MRF features with traditional methods |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2001 |
| Authors | Clausi, D. A. |
| Conference Name | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
| Keywords | classification rate, Data fusion, Gabor filters, image texture, image texture interpretation, Markov Random Fields, occurrence probabilities, oceanographic techniques, remote sensing by radar, SAR sea ice imagery, sea ice, sensor fusion, significance level testing, synthetic aperture radar, texture feature extraction methods, texture recognition |
| Abstract | Image texture interpretation is an important aspect of the computer-assisted discrimination of SAR sea ice imagery. Co-occurrence probabilities are the most common approach to solve this problem. However, other texture feature extraction methods exist that have not been fully studied for their ability to interpret SAR sea ice imagery. Gabor filters and Markov random fields (MRF) are two such methods considered. Classification and significance level testing shows that co-occurrence probabilities classify the data with the highest classification rate, with Gabor filters a close second. MRF results significantly lag Gabor and co-occurrence results. However, the MRF features are uncorrelated with respect to co-occurrence and Gabor features. The fused co-occurrence/MRF feature set achieves higher performance |
| DOI | 10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976781 |
